lanna

Franco-Provençal

Noun

lanna (ORB, narrow)

1. Alternative form of lana (“wool”)

References

• Stich, Dominique (2001) Francoprovençal: Proposition d'une orthographe supra-dialectale standardisée (Thesis)‎^[1], University of Paris, page 587

Irish

Noun

lanna f pl

1. nominative/dative plural of lann

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

lanna f

1. genitive singular of lann

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• landa, landia, lannia (Calabria)

(the presence of the ⟨d⟩ could derive from hypercorrection)

Etymology

Possibly from Latin lāmina, lamna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlanːa/
• Hyphenation: lan‧na

Noun

lanna f (plural lanni)

1. tin plate
2. thin sheet of metal; lamina
3. tin can

Descendants

• → Italian: landa (see there for further descendants)
• → Maltese: landa

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 405: “la latta” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “lanna”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2202
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “lanna”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 8
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “lànna”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 482